Ailish

Where Ailish comes from

Phonetic rendering of Irish Ailís (“Alice”) or Eilís (“Elizabeth”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ailish
  • Irish
Along the way
  1. 1991
    First appearance
    #11,509 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2016
    Peak, #3,923
    38 babies named Ailish — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #6,083.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.